Here's The Final Batch Of Fantastic Fest 2012 Titles!

In a week and a day, I'll be heading out to Fantastic Fest, and I couldn't be happier about it. I'm going to be covering the heck out of this film festival, along with Quint and the rest of the Austin contingency - the many events, secret special stuff, and of course, the films. Today the final batch of titles has been released and they look terrific as usual. I'm very curious to see TAI CHI 0 - heard a lot of good things about it, and it's a steampunk kung fu movie that looks like a lot of fun. What would you call that genre, anyway - Punk Fu? Steam Kung? Who cares? Looking forward to it.

Fantastic Fest starts September 20th, and this year looks to be crazy good. Here's the final list of movies playing!

FANTASTIC FEST ANNOUNCES

FINAL WAVE OF FILM PROGRAMMING

World Premiere Screening of ‘The Collection’

Tops Off The Incredible 2012 Lineup

Austin, TX—Wednesday, September 12, 2012— Fantastic Fest is thrilled to announce the final installment of programming for Fantastic Fest 2012, including the world premiere screening of The Collection. Fantastic Fest will take place September 20-27 in Austin, Texas at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar.

When Elena’s (Emma Fitzpatrick) friends take her to a secret party at an undisclosed location, she never imagined she would become the latest victim of The Collector, a psychopathic killer. The Collector kidnaps and transports her to an abandoned hotel he’s transformed into his own private maze of torture and death. Upon learning of his daughter’s disappearance, Elena’s wealthy father (Christopher McDonald) hires a group of mercenaries to retrieve her from the vicious grips of The Collector. These mercenaries coerce Arkin (Josh Stewart), the only man to have escaped the wrath of this heinous monster, to lead them through the gruesome labyrinth. Now, Arkin finds himself fighting for his own life in order to save Elena. “The Collection,” directed by Marcus Dunstan and written by Dunstan and Patrick Melton, is a suspense horror film with nonstop thrills at every turn, starring Josh Stewart (The Dark Knight Rises), Emma Fitzpatrick (The Social Network), and Christopher McDonald (Requiem for a Dream). LD Entertainment will release The Collection in theaters November 30, 2012.

ANTIVIRAL (2012) US PremiereDirector - Brandon Cronenberg, 110 mins Syd March makes people sick, infecting them with viruses harvested to order from celebrities, but gets more than he bargained for when his most famous source dies from a virus Syd has just infected himself with.

BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO (2012) US PremiereDirector - Peter Strickland, 92 mins Strange things occur after a British audio technician is summoned to Italy to work on a gory giallo film.

BESTIES (2012) World PremiereDirector - Rebecca Perry Cutter, 91 mins BESTIES tells the story of two high school girls—an awkward freshman and a sexy senior—who become immersed in a manipulative and deadly friendship.

BLACK OUT (2012) World PremiereDirector – Arne Toonen, 73 mins A splitting headache, a dead gangster, twenty kilos of missing coke and 24 hours to sort it all out before getting married. Jos is about to have a very bad day.

BRING ME THE HEAD OF THE MACHINE GUN WOMAN (2012) World PremiereDirector - Ernesto Diaz Espinosa, 75 mins Timid, video game-loving DJ Santiago seemingly digs his own grave when he agrees to bring a violent criminal kingpin the head of Machine Gun Woman.

THE COLLECTION (2012)

World Premiere with director/writer Marcus Dunstan, writer Patrick Melton and cast Josh Stewart and Emma Fitzpatrick in personDirector – Marcus DunstanWhen Elena’s friends take her to a secret party at an undisclosed location, she never imagined she would become the latest victim of The Collector, a psychopathic killer.

COME OUT AND PLAY (2012) US Premiere Director - Makinov, 95 mins While on vacation, Beth and Francis visit a remote island that turns out to be almost solely inhabited by children. Unfortunately for them, these kids are far from well behaved.

DANGER 5 (2012) World PremiereDirector - Dario Russo, 150 mins It’s World War II and there’s nothing Hitler won’t do to take over the world! Dinosaur men! Love potions! Giant robots! And all that stands in his way are the intrepid forces of the DANGER 5!

DOM - A RUSSIAN FAMILY (2011) North American PremiereDirector - Oleg Pogodin, 109 mins A Russian mobster returns to his ancestral home for a family reunion after years of living in the criminal underworld. Unbeknownst to him, his ruthless enemies follow close behind.

EXORCIST IN THE 21ST CENTURY, THE (2012)

World Premiere

Director – Fredrik Horn Akselsen, 80min

Norwegian documentarian Fredrik Horn Akselsen examines the work of Father Jose Antonio Fortea – an actual, Vatican-approved exorcist – in this balanced look at a largely hidden world within the Catholic church.

THE FINAL MEMBER (2012)

Regional Premiere

Directors - Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math, 75mins

A mind-blowing documentary about three men who are deeply obsessed with penises—human or otherwise.

HAIL (2012) Regional PremiereDirector - Amiel Courtin-Wilson, 104 mins Real life ex-con Daniel P. Jones stars in this haunting and unflinchingly realistic film crafted from over 500 pages of his own memories and experiences.

Real life bluegrass band Future Folk use a banjo and a guitar to save mankind in this sci-fi comedy origin story.

LEE’S ADVENTURE (2011) North American PremiereDirector - Frant Gwo, 91 mins When Li Xianje's beautiful girlfriend dies in a tragic accident, he attempts to harness his temporal dilation disorder in order to travel back in time and save her.

PUSHER (2012) US Premiere Director - Luis Prieto, 89 mins A small time drug dealer gets in way over his head when a big deal goes bad in Luis Prieto’s British remake of Nicolas Winding Refn's debut feature film.

A trip meant to save their marriage turns into a nightmare when Johan and Saar accidentally videotape a police shooting in the streets of Argentina.

TEBANA SANKICHI: SNOT ROCKETS (2012) World Premiere Director - Yudai Yamaguchi, 79 mins Tak Sakaguchi stars in Yudai Yamaguchi’s feature-length reboot of an original indie short film made in 1995. Follow the ridiculous adventures of sometime private detective and fighting master Tebana “Snot Rockets” Sankichi, and his loyal sidekick “Twice” Shiro. An episodic, nonsense comedy that flies like a rocket and lands like a wet loogie.

TWO RABBITS (DOIS COEHLOS) (2012) International Premiere Director - Afonso Poyart, 108 mins Edgar returns to Brazil after two years in Miami, focused on enacting a complicated revenge plot and hoping to find absolution for his sins in the process.

Regional PremiereDirector - Pang Ho-Cheung, 90 mins What do pubic hair, pop rocks, cow vaginas and sex with mules have in common? They are all part of moviemaking in Hong Kong.

WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971)

Repertory screening

Director - Ted Kotcheff, 114mins

A Palme D’Or nominee based on the 1961 book of the same name by Kenneth Cook and directed by FIRST BLOOD’s Ted Kotcheff, WAKE IN FRIGHT is an uncompromisingly brutal look at what happens when men are left alone together in the outback with guns and a lot of beer. This is going to be a mind-blower on the big screen. Get ready.

These sound ok, but as the centrepiece film "The Collection" sounds TERRIBLE. It sounds like Along Came a Spider mixed with Hostel starring Shooter McGavin. This has one illustrious future in store...going straight to DVD.
Barberian Sound Studio is supposed to be incredible though.

If you're going to be at the Festival, please be our guest to the Premiere of THE COLLECTION.
If you are not absolutely shocked and surprised by what you see, then the drinks are on me at our after party.
Thanks,
-Marcus

written and directed by the same guy who also did some Saw movies and the Feast trilogy.
So I guess this is a sequel to the collector? Same mask is looks like.
That Josh Stewart is annoying to watch though. Always looks like he's posing for a picture while facing the bright sun - always doing this brooding/squinting thing.

Total agreement, dude -- it's goddamn hilarious, and no geek should miss it. Every episode has a ton of laughs, sub-Thunderbirds-quality miniature sets, and at least one jaw-droppingly insane scene, shot or line of dialogue that'll make you fall out of your chair. (Example: The Diamond Girls' "Ilsa and the phone" scene.) If any of you guys are going to this festival, and you haven't seen the show, absolutely check it out. (And Natasa Ristic is the sexiest woman on TV.) How can you not love a show with dialogue like, "at 0800 this morning, an American soldier was eaten by a Nazi dinosaur!"

The movie's plot is stupid as hell. A killer sets up traps in people's homes and kills everyone but one person, who he stuffs in a trunk and takes with him to the next location. But the movie lost me when the thief breaks out of the house and is free, but goes back for the kid. Now normally I wouldn't have a problem with it, but the set up of the movie is that he needs to rob this house to pay off a guy by midnight or he'll kill the thief's wife and kid. So it makes no sense for him to go back into the house. Yes, it makes him heroic. But the house if full of traps. You have a psycho killer in the house. It would make more sense to call the cops and haul ass to save your family. If he was just a thief and his family weren't in danger, I wouldn't hate the movie as much. But there's no way in hell he would go back into the house.

Arkin returns because he sees the young girl beckoning for him to help her. Arkin is robbing the house to save his daughter who is the same age as the girl he goes back to rescue. In the beginning of the movie you see Arkin build a rapport with the younger daughter as well as the father.
Arkin is a thief but he is still a human.

I've read that "The Collection" was given much more funding then the first one. I read on IMDB that the first was given maybe $5 million while the sequel was given at least twice that. I really enjoyed the first film from a cinematography stand point. IMDB has Sam McCurdy as the DP, the man is a genius. I can't wait.